The helmet did a great job dampening all of the after-effects of using the Rocket function of the Death Pod; the worst she feels is the pressure wave and heat.
"I can't believe that worked!" She yells and joins the others jumping out of the front. Those boots are on the ground and still only for the seconds it takes for Abby to do a quick look around herself, but not behind, as since her experience tells her if the danger isn't immediately to your front or sides, it's coming from behind you and you need to run and not think. The Death Pod is set to Flamethrower.
"RUN! INTO THE TREES!" Abby slaps Alec on the back and pulls him into a full run. The armor she wore had come with a jetpack, but she'd left that behind as she had not the tiniest idea of how to use it. Hell there were functions of this set she hadn't learned to use yet besides the arm blades. Behind the helmet, Abby is wide-eyed and has flared nostrils as she runs and listens for the massive beast behind her. Damn thing was larger than even the largest Deathclaw she's seen from afar, and those legs could catch up to them if it had the endurance for a chase.
At least it looks too huge to jump like a Deathclaw. Thank God for small favors.
A memory flashes for her. And with that memory an idea to get this thing off their trail.
Abby skids to a stop, pivots on her heel to face the Rex. She raises her Death Pod, and waits. She should be the only standing target, easy prey. It has short arms and a huge set of jaws, meaning it would try to snap her up before doing anything else.
When it did lunge forth with jaws open, she would pull the trigger, and shoot a long jet of flame right into the soft flesh inside its mouth. This tactic, done with a Molotov Cocktail, had sent a charging Deathclaw running away in pain and to the nearest water source to put out the fire.
Yeah this thing was bigger, but unless it had an armored mouth for some reason, it was still vulnerable there.
The Rex took a moment to see the little things begin to run off, studying them. It could smell them. Food.
It took chase, each stomp of its foot shaking the ground violently. With how tall it was, it didn't take long for it to immediately reach the suddenly stopping Abby, with only a moment to prepare to attack it before it opened its jaws wide, tilting its head to the side to snatch up her whole body in its mouth. Yet, suddenly, before it could, fire erupted all around its mouth. Its soft gums, skin and tongue were engulfed in such a burning sensation the beast had never felt before, pushing its head away from Abby as it roared once again in pain, with smoke blowing out in a big puff and billowing from between its teeth. With Kassandra's arrow, it managed to pierce through the dinosaur's skin, adding to its incredible pain, but it didn't penetrate deep enough to put it down. Instead, The Rex lost its footing as it tried changing direction from where Abby was standing, and from the shot of pain in its torse, it began to collapse; its whole body was about to fall on top of the Courier.
Nolan
Covered by Ziv, Nolan expected the roof of the ship to collapse onto them and that'd be the end of their tale. But Abby lifted her strange gun after grabbing it from the lockers, before something fired out of it and into the front of the room where the seats and controls where. Devastating the front of the cockpit.
The result was an exit for them, and a ear-ringing deafening for Nolan as he stumbled out of the ship with the others, disorientated as the sounds of everything was muffled beyond the ringing. Nolan landed clumsily next to Alec, turning to look back to see the giant lizard thing looking back at them. Even if Nolan could hear at the moment, he didn't need the extra encouragement to start running alongside Alec.
Ears still ringing, Nolan wasn't hindered by the gear he had as it was relatively light as he hauled ass in whatever direction Alec had chosen for their retreat.
@Wade Von Doom @Amber Franklin @LenxKaitoYaoi
Alec, meanwhile, didn't even attempt to look back at what was happening, more focused on zigzagging between the trees to make sure the T-Rex, if it was still chasing him and Nolan, would run into them, or have to move around it, just try making it harder for it to snatch them both up. In their panicked run, they were both quickly lost within the fog, with Abby, Ziv and Kassandra quickly losing sight of them. When the Rex roared again with the sound of its body falling, Alec turned his head around to the side to see what happened. However, it was also lost to the fog, with its echoing roar the only indication of where it might be. Both men though would unfortunately run straight into a group of big fern bushes, and when passing through it, the flat land they were running across suddenly turned into a steep hill. Steep enough for them both to tumble down. "Abby?--" Was the last thing Alec shouted, before he then screamed out, "AHH!" As he took a nasty fall down the hill, while also unfortunately dragging Nolan down with him, as he tried grabbing the poor bastard to stop himself from falling. Didn't work.
It last several seconds, but felt like forever, as the passing brush scratched across his face, and fallen branches from the trees and roots poking up from the ground smashed into his body hard. The worst part came when he didn't feel the ground anymore, and just wind blowing past his face, as he took a five foot drop onto a pile of rocks; landing on his hip and smacking his head into one that felt jagged. Alec couldn't even let out a groan from the pain, as he just couldn't breathe; the wind knocked out of him badly.
His injuries so far: Whiplash, a likely concussion, his chest feeling like a rib had cracked from when his body buckled from the crash, what felt like a broken hip, his face all scratched up from the plants he fell through, and while not a psychical injury, his self-pride felt hurt, as he could feel something wet in his pants. Thankfully, when he could finally look down at his legs once he could breathe again, he didn't soil himself. Just water passing across his lower body. He and Nolan had rolled into a shallow river.
Vivian Cain - Beach tree line > further in-land
Vivian was keeping watch with her life sense to make sure none of the birds made it through the tree line to them, not for their lack of trying, and realized that it was very clearly not safe where they were yet as it was only a matter of time until they reached the duo, and anyone else that had gotten as far as them, licking the blood off her hands guiltily with her back faced to her new partner, unable to resist the temptation any longer.
Unwilling to move further in-land for fear of losing the rest of the group, but not seeing a different path for them to take, Vivi watched as Reta made some strange light that briefly penetrated her blindfold, but didn't ask, her mind preoccupied with the new problem she now faced. "I don't know how bad your wound is, but it felt very large from when I was bandaging it up, but I don't suppose you can walk? I can carry you further if need be but.. Uh.. I might walk into a few trees." she asked, a little embarrassed with herself, and even a little ashamed at keeping up this charade, but she was adamant on continuing it, at least for her own safety until the time was right.
On the bright side of things, she was feeling much better now that she was in the shade of the trees and out of the sunlight. The clouds had done a good job of hiding it, but it'd still been weighing on her heavily.
In response the woman let out a sigh and touched her shoulder, which she would take as a sign to help her stand up and begin leading the way in-land, taking most of her weight while still not entirely carrying her, hoping they'd guide her away from any of the trees. The blindfold made things difficult as she could just about make out shapes, which made her glad for having the gift of sight.
Vivi wasn't too worried about the rest of the group, she'd be able to find them easily enough, or at least she hoped, but whether that was a good thing or a bad thing was beyond her, that man already seemed suspicious of her and they'd hardly met, she'd need to come up with excuses while she had the chance.
Hoping that everyone in the group would be smart enough to run into the woods Zaheer would do just that as well, making sure to stay near the back to help any left footed member of their new found group into the woods with a gentle air current that would unceremoniously slam them into the woods wherever they liked it or not.
Once at the edge of the woods though he wouldn't continue running, instead looking up at the circling flying beasts above trying to find a way to dive them through the trees.
When one would think what would be the right course of action would to air bend themselves near the tree top. But the anarchist was doing it on purpose, sitting just tantalizingly close enough to tree tops to potentially bait any juveinelle predator who didn't have the experience to realise this was bait. After all they were going to need an animal carcass for food and other things.
Zaheer's baiting of the creatures wouldn't take long. Already one tried swopping in from behind to behead the airbender with his jaws. While up there, he could see the fog had dissipated slightly more as the wind blew stronger. Off in the north, he could see they weren't too far away from a small mountain, and if he looked just right, he could notice something off about some of the trees.
Between the orange trees and icy mountains, with the fog lowering further into the valley, he would see that between some of the trees, there looked to be a small building. Painted with camo to blend into the tree line, but with a keen eye, he would be able to spot it. It was a few clicks north, a couple hours walk if they didn't run into more dinos.
What separated them from getting to the orange trees, and what Vivi and Reta were currently walking into, was a swamp.
The two vampires would find the land grow soggy the more they trekked into the swamp, with their feet sinking into the mud with each step they took. The sounds of bugs chittered away all around them, while above the trees, the echoing sounds of the birds were still present., and across the water, they could see more dinos. Land creatures, using their hind legs to reach up into the trees to eat from its branches.
